This worship tradition began many years ago in the ecumenical French monastic community called Taizé.
Held at All Saints’ in the darkened, richly resonant space of our beautiful Church, where candle light and the parish icon of Christ create a warm and intimate resting place.
Taizé services provide an uncomplicated framework for quiet meditation, reflection, readings and music

Every Tuesday evening, Tafelstraat 13 organizes toghether with student chaplain dr. R. de la Haye, a Vesper* in the crypt of the ancient Basilica of Our Lady.,
Amid the glow of a candlelit room, these quiet, Tuesday evening services are a popular, peace-filled way to relax into the week.

This Taizé vespers are characterized by simple chanting, light a candle, silence and prayer. We use hymnbooks with multilingual, many-voiced songs from Taizé. The liturgy that has developed around the Taizé community is primarily for the worship of God, but it is also meant to quiet the soul. This quietness does not happen at once, but gradually during the worship. There is repetition in the words of the music, there are periods of silence, and the readings are read slowly — all so that a deep quiet may grow in our hearts.

*The word comes from Latin vesper, meaning "evening."